If your blood pressure is running a little low, you may be interested in how advocates of tax cuts are viewed. Reportedly, poor people pay “more” taxes than rich people, but cutting taxes will hurt the poor by reducing the welfare they receive. Come again? It is considered unjust that the wealthy pay a smaller percentage of their income in taxes than the poor. Although income taxes are stratified excruciatingly progressively, sales and property taxes are not functions of income. I may be overreacting, but this seems another presentation of the false dilemma that the US must either cater to crony capitalists or welfare frauds.